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...both-the dinner of stuffed sheep's head, the full-dress safari with Bond as the prey, the chase through the bazaar, the fight with the portable buzz saw, the wing-walker aerobatics that would surely end in the Afghan's death. Or was it just a reflex of exquisite boredom on the face of a polo player named Louis Jourdan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Bond Wagon Crawls Along | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...supplied, but the underlying difficulty remains: If, as administrators agree, the University-student relation should be one of mutual responsibility, it should not be unreasonable to ask Bok and his cronies to show respect for what students have to say as well--to listen to complaints and, without the reflex of opposition, directly and thoughtfully to respond. That would be a story...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Power Games | 6/7/1983 | See Source »

...that automatically produce a thousand individually addressed love letters while the author snorkels in Cancún. Nor is there a great heaving nostalgia attached to the old machine. The history of its growth reads as excitingly as politics in Ottawa. Besides, people these days show far too much reflex yearning for the snows of yesteryear. Let the thing go. Indeed, one can briefly sum up the reasons for looking back with moderate affection on the manual typewriter and still not feel that the world is about to lose a piece of its heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Last Page in the Typewriter | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...growth of nationalism and dissent. Said François-Poncet: "If the Soviets could deal with a West European partner that would detach itself from the U.S., it would help them impose a solution in Eastern Europe." He wondered if the SS-20 program was simply the mechanistic reflex of the Soviet military establishment or part of a longer-term political strategy. If Moscow's aim is political blackmail, he said, then Western Europe should begin to brace for a period of high East-West tension after the deployment of NATO's own intermediate-range missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Alliance: Trying to Heal the Rift | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

...strong, lanky player, Layendecker played a lefthander's game and relied heavily on a powerful, well directed serve Reflex action net play also kept Sands moving Layendecker's long arms helped him cover the court space and when Sands broke his net play with high lobs. Layendecker reached high into the air too and slammed the ball off the court...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Harvard Sweeps Doubles Matches, Downs Elis, 6-3, to Insure NCAA Bid | 4/23/1983 | See Source »

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